Funding
Your scholarship can pay for this.
Florida families with a Step Up For Students education savings account can direct those funds toward enrichment — and VPA is an approved provider with a live marketplace listing. Here is how the programs work, and what to actually do next.
- Approved Step Up provider
- EMA marketplace listing live
- Physical Education — Sports Lessons
- Covers FES-UA, FTC, FES-EO, PEP
What Step Up For Students is
Step Up For Students is a Florida nonprofit that administers the state’s school-choice scholarships. Through education savings accounts (ESAs), eligible families direct funds toward approved expenses — tuition, curriculum, and in some program lanes, enrichment programs and services from approved providers.
For schools, co-ops, and homeschool communities, that matters: families in your community may already hold these scholarships, and the ESA model shapes how programs like VPA can be funded.
Approved provider
Physical Education — Sports Lessons
Eligible families can direct scholarship funds toward VPA through the Step Up marketplace. Covers FES-UA, FTC, FES-EO and PEP. Confirm current eligibility and allowable expenses with Step Up For Students.
The scholarships that matter here
Three of Step Up’s programs come up most often for the families and communities VPA works with. Each links to Step Up’s own page for it.
- Personalized Education
- PEP
For K–12 students not enrolled full time in a public or private school — the lane most homeschool families use. Open to all families regardless of household income. Funds sit in an education savings account the family directs. Step Up’s page for it → - Unique Abilities Scholarship
- FES-UA
For students with unique abilities. The ESA can be directed toward a broader range of approved services and supports than the other lanes allow. Step Up’s page for it → - Private School Scholarship
- FES-EO / FTC
For families choosing an education setting beyond their assigned public school. Most often associated with private school tuition, with some ESA flexibility toward other approved uses. Step Up’s page for it →
Step Up counts four programs in VPA’s approval — FES-UA, FTC, FES-EO and PEP — because PEP is a lane inside the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship rather than a separate scholarship. The three above are the ones a family or a school is most likely to be holding.
Eligibility, award details, and allowable expenses are defined by Step Up For Students and Florida law, and they change. Always verify current program rules directly with Step Up For Students.
How a family uses it
The listing is live, so this is a path you can walk today rather than a plan for later.
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Check that your program covers it
VPA is approved under Step Up’s Physical Education — Sports Lessons category. Whether your particular scholarship can be spent there, and how much is available, is Step Up’s to answer — their handbooks and purchasing guides are the authority.
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Find VPA in the marketplace
VPA’s EMA marketplace listing is live, so eligible families can direct scholarship funds to us through their Step Up account. Search for Victory Pickleball Academy.
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We scope the program and send what you need
Tell us your school, co-op or homeschool group and we scope formats, scheduling and pricing to it. Ask us for whatever your request needs from our side and we will provide it.
Exact steps differ by scholarship program, and program rules change. Confirm the current process with Step Up For Students before making plans around scholarship funds.
Where VPA stands
VPA is an approved Step Up For Students provider under Physical Education — Sports Lessons, and its EMA marketplace listing is live. Eligible families can direct scholarship funds toward our program today.
Program pricing works the same for every school and community: request a proposal and we’ll scope it with or without scholarship funding in the picture.
Verify with Step Up For Students
Eligibility, program rules, and allowable expenses are determined by Step Up For Students, not by VPA. Before making plans around scholarship funds, confirm the current details at the source.
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Program handbooks
The rules for your specific scholarship, from Step Up directly.
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Purchasing guides
What an ESA may and may not be spent on, by category.
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Log in to your account
Where families manage funds and submit requests.
More questions about programs, pricing, or safety? See the FAQ.
Plan your program, with funding in view.
We’ll scope formats, scheduling, and pricing to your school or community — with or without scholarship funding in the picture.